by Editorial Staff | Feb 4, 2013 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, Industry & Trends, Leadership & People, UAVs
* German defense minister Thomas de Maizière confirmed that his country would seek armed UAVs. In response to earlier leaks in the press, some German politicians had voiced strong opposition to the Bundeswehr’s intent to use UCAVs, on legal and ethical grounds....
by Editorial Staff | Feb 1, 2013 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Official Reports, Pre-RFP, Procurement Innovations, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, USA
* NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen published his 2012 report, expressing his confidence in the Afghan security forces. However a chart shows the number of enemy-initiated attacks per month is still higher now than it was in 2009. A couple of Pac Man pie charts...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 31, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Issues - Political
Through a glass, darkly(click to view full) As part of the current coalition government’s defence reform efforts, the UK Ministry of Defence has begun issuing a bare-bones 10-year equipment plan of expected budgets, and graphics of planned expenditures by...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 31, 2013 | Asia - Other, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, UAVs, USA
* Alan Krueger, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (to the White House), on the reason why US GDP contracted by 0.1% in Q4 2012: “Federal defense purchases declined at an annual rate of 22.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, the largest quarterly...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 30, 2013 | Africa - Other, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Pre-RFP, Saudi Arabia, Scandals & Investigations, Singapore, Support & Maintenance, USA
* Non-profit Transparency International asserts [PDF] that a vast majority of countries exert little, if any, political oversight of defense policy or scrutiny of defense procurement. Only Australia and Germany are ranked as at “very low risk” of...
